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  1. Yazata

    To Whom (if Anyone) Do Your Life, Body, and Self (if You Believe in One) Belong?

    I don't belong to anyone, least of all God. (I'm an opponent of slavery.) I guess that I do see myself (whatever that word refers to) as being captain of my personal ship. Hence I'm a big believer in personal liberty and autonomy, I guess.
  2. Yazata

    How can you dream of something that doesn't exist?

    I don't understand your post. Are you talking about different gods? About different ways of conceiving god? Or what?
  3. Yazata

    Why does Donald Trump hold such power over the Republican Party?

    "Why Does Donald Trump Hold Such Power Over the Republican Party?" As is so often the case, the subject line in this thread presents a false premise. I voted for Trump in 2016 and in 2020, and if he is the Republican candidate in 2024 I will almost certainly vote for him again. The reason has...
  4. Yazata

    Disbelievers in Islam answer please

    I would assume that there is some explanation for why the Moon seemingly cracked in two. And I would look first and foremost to science to discover that reason. (Did a large asteroid strike the Moon? Were lots of fragments ejected? (Is the Earth in danger of being struck by Moon fragments?)...
  5. Yazata

    the scientific correctness and noncorrectness of buddism

    While some Mahayana Buddhists say things like that, I don't think that it's universal to Buddhists, particularly Theravada. I'm not really comfortable with turning Buddhism into a supernatural ontology of some sort, with some sort of 'Buddha-nature' in the place of God (or Brahman in the...
  6. Yazata

    The Obama thread

    Yes, I think it was. I think that it was the result of well-intended but largely unrealistic assumptions. Self-serving assumptions certainly. But that often happens when people perceive themselves as the "good people" whose self-appointed mission is to bring 'good' to everyone else. (Whether...
  7. Yazata

    Does it make sense if God stops talking?

    Well, I don't personally believe in a God that talks to humans or dictates supposedly holy books or whatever. But sure, it's possible to invent theological theories about why such a God might have grown more quiet with time. The first that comes to my mind is that God wants humanity to mature...
  8. Yazata

    The Obama thread

    I'm not sure how involved Obama was with international affairs, as his interests were more with a Putin-style weaponization of the civil service against political enemies. He seems to have largely left international affairs to his foreign policy establishment. Which for much of the time in...
  9. Yazata

    Challenge for Those who believe that all Languages were not taught directly by God to Man

    It isn't obvious to me. Just by their nature as mediums of communication, languages are spoken by populations, not just by individuals. If the English language is continually changing, then we would seem to be faced with the problem of how much change in a language is possible while still...
  10. Yazata

    Do you want the Ukrainian War to end today?

    Apart from Antarctica and Australia, I think that the peace prize probably belongs to North America.
  11. Yazata

    Do you want the Ukrainian War to end today?

    In 1990 when communism imploded, I had great hopes that the US and Russia could become allies. But that wasn't to be, largely because too many of the leaders on both sides remained old-style cold warriors. Frankly, I place most of the blame for that on the US and the West. During the Cold War...
  12. Yazata

    Why would somebody willingly become a Satanist?

    I'm not particularly attracted to any "Abrahamic" religion. But I have to say that there have been times when I thought that Satan was the most sympathetic and attractive character in some of the stories. It goes back to when I was younger. I knew a very sweet old lady who took a liking to me...
  13. Yazata

    Is Human a kind of animal?

    Humans are biological animals. But the only kind of animals that we can interact with in human ways is other humans like ourselves. We can't get into intellectual conversations with earthworms. We don't expect humane behavior from parasitoid wasps. So when somebody says that somebody else is an...
  14. Yazata

    Ford car company strike

    Given all the "Green" hysteria, there is lots of talk about phasing out ICE cars and replacing them with EVs. But right now, the Big-3 legacy automakers lose several thousand dollars on every EV they sell. It will be a while before they can boost sales volume, decrease manufacturing...
  15. Yazata

    Do you want the Ukrainian War to end today?

    I think that there are wide differences of opinion among the American people. My impression from afar (way over here in California) is that Europeans are just as divided as we are. I personally hold out little hope for a peace agreement. Both sides are too dug into what they perceive are...
  16. Yazata

    GOP civil war

    Amen! I'm a registered Republican, though I feel little party loyalty to any party these days. (I'm more of a free-agent.) But I get really tired of the most left-wing sort of democrat telling me what I supposedly really think. It's almost always totally clueless and insulting as hell. Of...
  17. Yazata

    GOP civil war

    The thing is that Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney don't represent any big bloc of voters. They aren't giving voice to anything that large numbers of Americans are saying on the streets. The same is true of Bill Kristol and The Bulwark. Most of these people's support comes from lobbyists and inside...
  18. Yazata

    Is Human a kind of animal?

    Biologically, humans are obviously animals. On the cellular level, we are almost identical to other animals. Same cellular anatomy, chemical metabolism, genetic encoding mechanism and so on. We share many genes (hox genes for example) with distantly related animals like insects. Our status as...
  19. Yazata

    How do you define SCIENCE?

    I think that historically, the word 'science' was applied to any organized and systematic body of knowledge. Cooking was a science as was blacksmithing. We still occasionally hear about theology being the science of the divine and man's relation to it, which seems to have a similar origin in...
  20. Yazata

    Mitch McConnell freezes for the second time publicly:

    And non-whites
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